Bonus Vid: JDM Nostalgic Drag Racing
Is the traditional low and wide JDM look too boring for you? How ’bout some JDM funny cars built for the zero-yon (0-400m, about a 1/4 mile) with massive slicks and tubbed bodies? Here’s some footage from an Option video circa 1992 posted by JNCer SR-FairladyZ.
There’s the famous HKS MA70 Supra in action, along with some of the craziest Fairlady Zs, Skylines, and RX-7s on planet earth rocketing down the strip at Kamishihoro.
Also, check out part 2, which boasts draggin’ wagons, some American style funny cars like the ‘91 Olds Cutlass (yes, that was a popular platform back then) and, of all things, an Isuzu Piazza
June 21st, 2009 at 2:28 pm
let’s consider this our father’s day gift? HAPPY FATHER’S DAY DADS!!!
June 21st, 2009 at 3:05 pm
That’s an 810 Bluebird @1:53! Sweet!
June 21st, 2009 at 8:21 pm
Yes, Happy Father’s Day everyone!
June 21st, 2009 at 11:04 pm
wow aside from some of the funny cars, its seem as if no one knows how to get those cars to hook up. They are baanging the limiters. it looks like sum of them haave those big drag slicks full of air.
June 21st, 2009 at 11:46 pm
Great father’s day gift! Thanks!
In both videos they have great microphones! Why don’t they use such microphones anymore nowadays?
I also see two first generation Honda City Turbos (so not the bulldog model) @1:58!
Anyone got a good idea why they would drop a bored up L28 (to 3.1 liter) into a R32? (@1:09 in second vid) IMO the RB26DETT would give them a lot more potential than the L28…
June 22nd, 2009 at 5:50 am
banpei,
The use of the L28ET in the R32 is probably just to be different. Kind of like “look what we can do with a SOHC engine!” Who knows, maybe that team is just more comfortable working with an L28 because it’s older, maybe from a previous race car of theirs?
Thanks for sharing JNC, I knew these clips were worth the rip!
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:05 am
Call me wierd but I love the mighty max with the light bar @ 4:26
June 22nd, 2009 at 12:53 pm
What’s up with the beginning with the first video? That is filmed at Macau’s Chapel of Our Lady of Penha. Did they just finished showing the Macau GP or something?? LOL.
http://www.olamacauguide.com/penhachurch.html
June 29th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
Cool stuff, but what’s with the multiple shifters/levers in the R32 in the second vid around the 5:10 mark?